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With thousands of Hindu activists and Ram Lalla followers congregating to Ayodhya for the mega 'Dharam Sabha' calling for immediate nod to construct a grand Ram temple, senior Samajwadi party (SP) leader Azam Khan on Sunday lashed out at the BJP and Prime...

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Wednesday said there was a "civil war-like situation" prevailing in the country, adding that the minorities were living in perpetual fear and feeling alienated."Ministers of the Government of India are inciting communal passions...

Samajwadi Party leader Mohd Azam Khan on Tuesday said the safety and security of minorities in the country was in danger, adding that post independence this was by far the worst period for Muslims.Talking to reporters in his home town Rampur, the former Uttar...

Taking a dig at BJP legislator Sangeet Som who called the Taj Mahal a blot on Indian history because it was built by foreign rulers, Samajawadi Party MLA Azam Khan on Tuesday said all "symbols of slavery" like Parliament House and Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi...

Even as public outrage grows at molestation and groping of two women by over a dozen youths in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur, former Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Sunday asked people to keep womenfolk indoors to protect them from molesters.His...

Muslims have so many children since they had no other work to do, Uttar Pradesh's Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohd Azam Khan said on Friday -- courting yet another controversy.Known for his controversial statements and caustic remarks...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav here on Wednesday flagged off the first batch of Haj pilgrims from the state.Speaking on the occasion at the Maulana Ali Mian Haj House, Yadav urged the pilgrims to pray for the prosperity of their families, society...

Uttar Pradesh Minister and senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Tuesday triggered a political storm alleging a "political conspiracy" in the gang-rape of a woman and daughter near Bulandshahr with the BJP demanding a CBI probe into the crime that has...

Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan on Saturday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met underworld don Dawood Ibrahim at the residence of his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Lahore in December last year. The government termed it as baseless, unfounded...

Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is a spent force and there is no chance of his return to the party from which he was expelled in 2010, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Mohammad Azam Khan said."He is a 'daga kartoos' (spent cartridge) and is not coming...

Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd. Azam Khan has accused the US of pushing the world to the brink of the Third World War.At an event in Rampur, his home constituency, the urban development minister said on Thursday said the US only worries about its own interests,...

Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd. Azam Khan on Tuesday sympathised with Aamir Khan over the backlash triggered by the Bollywood actor's revelation that his wife contemplated leaving India due to "growing intolerance" in the country.In a three-page letter, urban...

Raking up another controversy, Uttar Pradesh minister Mohammed Azam Khan has told a rape victim not to try and find "popularity in such a thing of infamy and shame".The incident occurred during an event on Thursday in Kanpur where the woman had come to petition...

Uttar Pradesh Minister Mohammad Azam Khan seemed to suggest on Monday that Paris terror attacks were a reaction to the West's aggression against Islamic countries to control their oil resources, but later denied that he made any action-reaction link.Many a...

A lawsuit was filed against cabinet minister Mohammad Azam Khan in a Kanpur court for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi one of the "top ten criminals of the world".The accuser, Ram Sewak Shukla, a retired executive engineer of the Jal Nigam, gave his...

Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan on Wednesday said it was most unfortunate that a filmstar like Shah Rukh Khan has become the target of some BJP leaders.In a statement issued here, the minister for urban development and minority affairs, vented his anger on...

Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan has sought the dismissal of the Narendra Modi-led central government for "failing to protect the minorities in the country" and clamping of emergency in the country.Alleging that the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh was pursuing...

Senior Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd Azam Khan on Saturday alleged that his former party colleague Amar Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Sangeet Som were plotting to murder him.The UP urban development minister said the two belonged to the same...

Uttar Pradesh minister Mohammad Azam Khan on Monday said he will raise the trend of rising communal violence in India in the United Nations.Citing the lynching of a Muslim man following rumours that he ate beef in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri area, Khan said he was...

The face-off between the Raj Bhawan and Uttar Pradesh government found echo in the state assembly on Wednesday when Parliamentary Affairs Minister Azam Khan attacked Governor Ram Naik for being "biased against the government".Speaking in the state assembly,...

Uttar Pradesh Urban Development Minister Azam Khan has denied having called up any official before the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots broke out, as accused by a television channel in a sting operation.Appearing before a committee set up by the state assembly in...

Uttar Pradesh Urban Development and Minority Affairs Minister Azam Khan has cited the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya as the reason for the growth of terrorism in India.The Samajwadi Party leader made the comment at an election rally in Faizabad...

Uttar Pradesh Urban Development and Minority Affairs Minister Azam Khan has cited the demolition of the disputed Babri mosque structure in Ayodhya as the reason for terrorism in India.The senior Samajawadi Party (SP) leader commented about the Dec 6, 1992,...